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I've always said Melo needs to be the number 1 option. He is a volume shooter whose effectiveness very much depends on being able to get X number of shots. I am almost positive that Lin is well aware of that fact.

Give them a chance to develop that chemistry. There is only so much Melo can do on his own.

I've always said Melo needs to be the number 1 option. He is a volume shooter whose effectiveness very much depends on being able to get X number of shots. I am almost positive that Lin is well aware of that fact.

Give them a chance to develop that chemistry. There is only so much Melo can do on his own.

I'm not saying they can't but as of right now Melo and Lin's style is a worse combo than Melo and Amare.

For Lin to be effective he needs to dominate the ball idk if he can as effective with Melo, I wouldn't mind seeing Lin as the 6th man if NY can get an experienced player like Nash.

But seriously Amare is the 2nd best player Lin is like 3rd or 4th not to mention Amare is a top big in this league bigs are sooo important in the NBA.

I know its been mentioned before but I am just curious as I forgot..
are u a Laker Fan or Knick Fan or both.....

Both Knicks are my close 2nd fav team, my families always been split between the two teams so I grew liking both a lot as a kid but because my father loved LA and Kobe I decided to really follow the Lakers more back in like 2000.

I'll say Stat, but he has to be healthy or it will just be a waste. He'll hurt us more if he doesn't bring his game with him. Lin, I think will lose some speed and that first step (in the beginning). His vision should help us alot thou...and if he's working on his jumpshot he'll be an definite improvement. Either way, I suspect both of these dudes to be rusty when they return.

He was a beast during Linsanity, is pretty much a non-factor now....I hope it's only because of the injury.....he was a real asset to us and we need him back in THAT kind of shape.

He looked to be getting back to form yesterday.

It's to be expected with Jeffries making some bad offensive blunders, but he doesn't try a lot, so it's not a big deal to me, as long as it's not something crazy like the Boston series last year in game 2 when he took the final shot. Hopefully Woodson wouldn't draw up something for Jeffries like that.

If Amare is Healthy...and god I hope he is.. He is no question the most important returning piece.

But

If healthy this dude must be on beast mode and at the very least have SOME SORT OF DEFENSIVE AWARENESS!!! I was bored the other night and archived the NY NO-Hornets game. This dude was atrocious. Blew assignments and looked lost.
Gustavo Ayon (who???) made him look foolish on a couple of plays and posted 1 of his lik e 3 double doubles ahgainst him.

I will say that after woodson took over Amare looked a little more focused then ofcourse the injury happened.

I hope some one has been in his ear about the lack of attention to detail he's been guilty of.

Show him some tape while being smashed in between Anthony Mason and Larry Johnson.

If he can come back healthy and focused it takes a load off Melo and boosts our front court size and toughness.